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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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