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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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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Firsts Men Ruin
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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