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Great Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
- The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
- You have to study a great deal to know a little.
- The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
- It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
- Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
- To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
- It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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