In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVery good laws may be ill timed.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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 laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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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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