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Baron de Montesquieu

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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 coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

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