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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

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical 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
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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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.

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