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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Knowing Long Success
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

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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