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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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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Corruption Degrees Government
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

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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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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