Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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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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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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