The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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