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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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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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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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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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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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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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