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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

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic

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