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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 state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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 English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men

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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