Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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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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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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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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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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