If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems
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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
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