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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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
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

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