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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

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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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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