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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
Born: Jan 18, 1689
Died: Feb 10, 1755

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Punish, Laws, Only, Undertake, Acts

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Albert Camus, Blaise Pascal, Henri Bergson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil
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