This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUUseless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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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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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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