Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUEach 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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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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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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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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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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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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