Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAs men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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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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The less men think, the more they talk.
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