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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
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

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