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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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Power should be a check on power.
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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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