The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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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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Virtue has needs of limits.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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