When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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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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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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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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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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