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Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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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Blind Intelligent World
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger

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