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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise

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