It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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