Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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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.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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When 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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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