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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Baron de Montesquieu

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War

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