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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Baron de Montesquieu

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
…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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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