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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation

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