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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

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
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 shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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