Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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