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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic

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