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

Baron de Montesquieu

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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

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