The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHappy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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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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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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