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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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Facts Simplicity Writing
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells

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