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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
- Later
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
- Ought
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fertile
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
- Begins
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
- Enact
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
- Favor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
- Fatality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
- Preservation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
- Governs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less men think, the more they talk.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020