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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

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