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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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