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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Baron de Montesquieu

Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation

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