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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

Baron de Montesquieu

The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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