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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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 the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles

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