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

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Favors Talking Wit
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East

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