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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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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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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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