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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

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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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