Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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