The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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