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Solemnity is the shield of idiots

Baron de Montesquieu

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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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Government Law Thinking
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men

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