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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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