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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Baron de Montesquieu

A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

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