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

Baron de Montesquieu

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion

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

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