In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA rational army would run away.
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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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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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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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