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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
— Charles De Secondat
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
— Charles De Secondat
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
— Charles De Secondat
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
— Charles De Secondat
A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.
— Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
— Marianne Williamson
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
— Charles De Secondat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
— Charles De Secondat
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
— Charles De Secondat
We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.
— Mary E. DeMuth
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
— Charles De Secondat
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
— Charles De Secondat
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
— Anthony De Mello
It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .
— Harry Carpenter
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
— Charles De Secondat
When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough.
— Karl Marlantes
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
— Charles De Secondat
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
— Charles De Secondat
O imitators, you slavish herd!
— Horace
May your soul be sparked by the glorious light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no such thing as no chance.
— Henry Ford
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
— Charles De Secondat
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
— Charles De Secondat
I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?
— Harold Urey
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
— Charles De Secondat
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
— Charles De Secondat
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
— Charles De Secondat
Happy the people whose annals are boring to read.
— Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
— Charles De Secondat
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
— Charles De Secondat
I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.
— Norman Mailer
A diagnosis is not a prognosis unless you let it be.
— JohnA Passaro
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
— Charles De Secondat
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
— Charles De Secondat
Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.
— Stephen King
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
— Charles De Secondat