If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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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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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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