There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThose who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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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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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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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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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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