Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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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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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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