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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Baron de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

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