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

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

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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Trade
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Two
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Should
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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A rational army would run away.

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A rational army would run away.
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Running
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Fortune
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Tyrants
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Ruins
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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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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Running
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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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
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Foolishness
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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