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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
…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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love

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