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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

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday 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
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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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