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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Men Succession Vain
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Civil War Kingdoms War

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