There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHappy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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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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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Power should be a check on power.
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