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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de Montesquieu

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Natural Philosophical Trade
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Learning Men Science
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Liberty Light States

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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