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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible

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