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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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