Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUDo you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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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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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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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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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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