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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Baron de Montesquieu

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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