Elena de la Madriaga: Ladies and gentleman, it seems like if the only embarrassment here tonight is my presence, if the truth will
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less
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Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever
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We may be scum, but at least we're la crème de la scum.
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I d
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Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equa
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