What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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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 state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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