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Baron de Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
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
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War

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