Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPassion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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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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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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