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You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Baron de Montesquieu

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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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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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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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