Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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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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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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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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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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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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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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