No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUDemocracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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