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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

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity

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