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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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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Religion Religious War
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time

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