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Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
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
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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