The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTrade is the best cure for prejudice.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Power should be a check on power.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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