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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Baron de Montesquieu

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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