In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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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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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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