There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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False 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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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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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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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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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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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