As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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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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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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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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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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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