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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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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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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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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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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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