Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSolemnity is the shield of idiots
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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A rational army would run away.
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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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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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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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