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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
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

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