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Baron de Montesquieu

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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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