When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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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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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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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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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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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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