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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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