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Baron de Montesquieu

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
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 reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles

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