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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Giving Law Made
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
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

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