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

Baron de Montesquieu

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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 well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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