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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
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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Men Politics Republican
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
…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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Corruption Law Republic

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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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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