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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War

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