The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPolitics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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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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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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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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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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