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Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Baron de Montesquieu

A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed

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