Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULove of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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