Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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