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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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

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