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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love

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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