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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War

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