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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Baron de Montesquieu

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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 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
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
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
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
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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