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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 a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Experience 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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Abuse Men Power
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires

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