Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt 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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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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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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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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