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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Baron de Montesquieu

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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