Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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