The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
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Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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The love of democracy is that of equality.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
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