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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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

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