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

Baron de Montesquieu

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake

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