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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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Philosophical Success Time
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Philosophical Success Wise
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War

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