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Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
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

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