It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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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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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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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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