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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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