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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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