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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

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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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Law Name Tyrant
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study

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