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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

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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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

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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