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

Baron de Montesquieu

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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 wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness

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