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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
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

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