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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

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
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical

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