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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 mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

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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