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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune

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