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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion

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