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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
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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Age Birthday People

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