Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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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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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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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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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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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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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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