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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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