Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMen should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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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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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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