I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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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 prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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There 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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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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