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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Baron de Montesquieu

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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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