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Baron de Montesquieu

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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