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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing

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