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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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