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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

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