Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNever create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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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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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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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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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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