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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Baron de Montesquieu

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
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
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
…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

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