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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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

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