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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
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
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time

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