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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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