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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Ambition Community Mind
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

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