A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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A rational army would run away.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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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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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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