Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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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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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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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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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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