The security he began to enjoy from this success, and the strength which government receives by merely continuing, gave room to his natural dispositions to break out in several acts of tyranny and injustice.
This quote reflects on how the initial success of a ruler can lead to tyranny and injustice over time.
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Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.
Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
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