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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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