To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
The less men think, the more they talk.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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.
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