Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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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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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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