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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

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