When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
Baron de MontesquieuDemocracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
Baron de MontesquieuThere is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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