Very good laws may be ill timed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTrade is the best cure for prejudice.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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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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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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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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