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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Baron de Montesquieu

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
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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Earth Law Political
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War

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