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A rational army would run away.

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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 God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress

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