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Baron de Montesquieu

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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