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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
…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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

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