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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
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mathematics Three Triangles
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking

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