Charles de Montesquieu
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.