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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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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