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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

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