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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy

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