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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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 love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

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