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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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

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