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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

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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
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
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty

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