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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

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