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Montesquieu

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Admirable maxim: not to speak of things until they are done.

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The law should be like death, which exempts no one.

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To be truly great, one must be with the people, not above them.

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When death has equalized fortunes, funerals should not differentiate them.

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A man is not unhappy because of ambition, but because it devours him.

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Freedom consists of being able to do what one ought to do.

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Usually, those who possess great talent are naive.

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Sports appeal because they flatter greed, that is, the hope of possessing more.

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Talent is a gift that God gives us in secret, and that we reveal without knowing it.

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The breakdown of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

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When one seeks so much the way to become feared, one always finds first the way to become hated.