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

Baron de Montesquieu

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous

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