The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Experience 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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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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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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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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