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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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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Body Honor Thinking
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican

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