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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
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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Men Speak Writing

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