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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason

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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