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

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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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Democracy Equality Love
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States

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