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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
…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

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