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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Baron de Montesquieu

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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