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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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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
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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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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Order Political
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Succession
Solemnity is the shield of idiots

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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Shields
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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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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Sovereign
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Wells
An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Made Threat
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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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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Given
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Trade
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Political
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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