Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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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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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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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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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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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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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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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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