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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

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