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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

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare

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

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