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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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A rational army would run away.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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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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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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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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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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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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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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In republican governments, men are all equal equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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