The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere 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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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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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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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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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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