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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
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 false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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