Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVirtue has needs of limits.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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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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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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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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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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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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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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