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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron de Montesquieu

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society

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