Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULaws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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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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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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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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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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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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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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