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Baron de Montesquieu

…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should

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