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

Baron de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society

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