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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Baron de Montesquieu

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Honesty Integrity War
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth

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