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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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