Montesquieu

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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice

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I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ

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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength

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Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods