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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat

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