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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin

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