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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

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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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Body Diversity Movement
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
There 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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Gratitude Men Ties

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