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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

Baron de Montesquieu

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Discover Foolishness Wit
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Spare

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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