The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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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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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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