Minds Exaggerate Quotes by Charles de Secondat

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Charles de Secondat has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
• I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
• The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
• Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
• Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
• There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
• The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

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