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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 success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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

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

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