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

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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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Country Criminals Tests

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