Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULaw should be like death, which spares no one.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Power should be a check on power.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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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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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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