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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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

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