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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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A rational army would run away.
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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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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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