A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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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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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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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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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 not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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