This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience 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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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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