Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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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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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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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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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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