Luxury Ruins Republics; Poverty, Monarchies.

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.

I Have Always Observed That To Succeed In The World One Should Seem A Fool, But Be Wise.

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.

When A Government Is Arrived To That Degree Of Corruption As To Be Incapable Of Reforming Itself, It Would Not Lose Much By Being New Moulded.