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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate

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