The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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