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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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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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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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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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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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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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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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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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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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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