Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMan is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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