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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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