Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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