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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles

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