To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULuxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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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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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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