Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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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 culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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