No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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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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