Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn 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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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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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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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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