An injustice to one is a threat made to all
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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