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A rational army would run away.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
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Example Law Morality
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign

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