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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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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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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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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 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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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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