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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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