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Charles de Montesquieu Quote: 'Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ...'

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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.


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Politics ruins the character.


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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.


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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.


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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.
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There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.


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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.


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I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.


Martin Short
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!


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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.


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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.


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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.


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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.


Henry Ward Beecher
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.


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Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.


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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.


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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.


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