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

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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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