I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSlavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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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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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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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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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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