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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
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
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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War

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