Solemnity is the shield of idiots
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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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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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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