In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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