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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
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
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 a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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