One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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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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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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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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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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