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

Baron de Montesquieu

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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