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

Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign

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

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