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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Virtue has needs of limits.
A rational army would run away.
Very good laws may be ill timed.
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
Power should be a check on power.
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Europe is a state with several provinces
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
