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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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