It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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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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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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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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