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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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