The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFalse 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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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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There 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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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Power should be a check on power.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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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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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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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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