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Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
[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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made

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