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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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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Education School Two

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