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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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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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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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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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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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