If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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