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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Baron de Montesquieu

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

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