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— 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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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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