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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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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