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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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The less men think, the more they talk.

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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Oliver Sacks Neurologist

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith Philosopher

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Anish Kapoor Sculptor

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Aristotle Philosopher

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Baron De Montesquieu Author

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Bertrand Russell Philosopher

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