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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

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