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It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.


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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment



For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.



The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.



Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.



The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.



Happy is the nation without a history.

Happy is the nation without a history.



The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.



happy is the nation without a history

happy is the nation without a history



The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.



I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.





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Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.



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