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 MONTESQUIEUPower should be a check on power.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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