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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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 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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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