Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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