There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is … - Benjamin Constant

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Benjamin Constant

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power. . . on the contrary, they must be given less power.

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

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The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves. . . the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.

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The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

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Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

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

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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

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