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

Baron de Montesquieu

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World

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

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