We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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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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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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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 never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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