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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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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Abuse Authority Men
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use

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