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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society

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