Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMediocrity is a hand-rail.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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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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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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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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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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