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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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

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