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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
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
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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