Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim he fled and was brought back a prisoner the most scandalous charges were suppressed the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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