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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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake

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