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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 sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth

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