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

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
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
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
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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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