When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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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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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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