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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Government Law Three
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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
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

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

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