Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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