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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law

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