Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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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.
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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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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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