Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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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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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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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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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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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 less men think, the more they talk.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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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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