In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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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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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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