If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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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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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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