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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Abuse Authority Men
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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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Men Speak Writing
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander

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