Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULuxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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A rational army would run away.
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