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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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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Corruption Degrees Government
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War

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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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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