When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHappy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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