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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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