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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

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