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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Baron de Montesquieu

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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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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Men Politics Republican
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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

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