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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret

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