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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron de Montesquieu

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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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Inspire Men Mixtures
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit

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