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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
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
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

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