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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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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Nature Proportion Rewards
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing

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