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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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