Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAs virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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