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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty

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