The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThey 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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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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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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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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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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