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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

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