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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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 power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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