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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
As 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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Age Men Passion

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