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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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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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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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A rational army would run away.
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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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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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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