Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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.
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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.
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