Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.Charles de Secondat
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Charles de Secondat
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Secondat
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
Charles de Secondat
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.
Charles de Secondat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Charles de Secondat
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