A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe 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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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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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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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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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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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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