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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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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
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
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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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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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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