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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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