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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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