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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue

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