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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

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