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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 life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Men Succession Vain
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Philosophical Success Wise
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly

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

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