There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Experience 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 love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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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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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.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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