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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

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
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
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue

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