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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

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
[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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East

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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