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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Baron de Montesquieu

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law 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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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

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