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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Baron de Montesquieu

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing

…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

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