It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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