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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Fertility Liberty
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Comeback Insult Sexuality
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading

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