The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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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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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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