Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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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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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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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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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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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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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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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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