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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

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