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The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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 false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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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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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
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In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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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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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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