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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

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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