Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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A rational army would run away.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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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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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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