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

Baron de Montesquieu

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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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Envy Men Praise
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
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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order

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

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