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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Baron de Montesquieu

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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