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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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 come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power

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