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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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