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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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