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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron de Montesquieu

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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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Aggression Order Two War
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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