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

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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

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