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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
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

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