The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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