Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNever create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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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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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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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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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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