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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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 never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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