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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?