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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

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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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