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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
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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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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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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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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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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 wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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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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