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Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

One truly understands only what one can create.

A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.