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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
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
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason

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