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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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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Men Speak Writing
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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