Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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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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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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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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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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