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

Baron de Montesquieu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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 spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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