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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

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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

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