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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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