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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion

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