An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience 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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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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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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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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