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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins

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