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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic

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