Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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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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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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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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A rational army would run away.
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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 alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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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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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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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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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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