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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign

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