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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron de Montesquieu

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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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Country Criminals Tests
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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