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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron de Montesquieu

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat

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