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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

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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

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