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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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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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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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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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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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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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