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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

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