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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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

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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