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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

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