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If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.