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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

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