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Baron de Montesquieu

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

Politics Republic Wisdom
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Powerful Sick
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Civil War Kingdoms War

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