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

Baron de Montesquieu

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
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
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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Happiness Laughter Men
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness

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

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