The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCountries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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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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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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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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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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