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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

Baron de Montesquieu

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men

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