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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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