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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Baron de Montesquieu

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

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