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

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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 English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading

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