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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Baron de Montesquieu

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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

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