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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Baron de Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
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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Age Birthday People

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