There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWe ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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