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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Baron de Montesquieu

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

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