I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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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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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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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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