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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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A rational army would run away.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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