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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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
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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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