A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNo kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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