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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
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

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