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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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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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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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