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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

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