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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

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