One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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