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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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
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
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic

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