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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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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Gunpowder Men Secret
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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