The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn 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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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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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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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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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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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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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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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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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