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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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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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Democracies Government Wisdom
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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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Country Criminals Tests
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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Hate Running Thinking
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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