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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent 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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War

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