When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere 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.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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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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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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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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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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