As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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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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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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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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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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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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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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