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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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