No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCertain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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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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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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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 laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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