They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.
Baron de MontesquieuI shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Baron de Montesquieu...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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