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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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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Happiness Laughter Men
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
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.
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Country Government Reality
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise

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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