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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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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Government Law Three
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

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