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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political

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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