It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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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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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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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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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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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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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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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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