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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

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