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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

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