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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
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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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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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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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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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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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