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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two

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