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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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