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The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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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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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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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 no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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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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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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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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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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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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