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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science

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