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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
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