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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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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Citizens Men Naked
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
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

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