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

Baron de Montesquieu

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing

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