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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs

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