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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de Montesquieu

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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