The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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