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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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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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[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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