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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

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical

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