Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMen should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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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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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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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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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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 Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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