Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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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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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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A rational army would run away.
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