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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

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed

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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