I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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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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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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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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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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