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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

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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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