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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality

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