In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Power should be a check on power.
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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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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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