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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Baron de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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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Character Giving Leadership
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise

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