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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake

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