- Lack
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- 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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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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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