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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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