There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVirtue has needs of limits.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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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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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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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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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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