Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Poverty
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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