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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
…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
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
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
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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Body Honor Thinking
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

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