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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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