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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men

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