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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards

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