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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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