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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.