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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty

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