Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI 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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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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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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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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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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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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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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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.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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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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