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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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