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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Baron de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

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