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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Baron de Montesquieu

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading

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