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

Baron de Montesquieu

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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 history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking

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

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