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Baron de Montesquieu

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
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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Education School Two
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
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

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