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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

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