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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

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit

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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