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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Baron de Montesquieu

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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