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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
[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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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