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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Abuse Men Power
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom

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