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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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 English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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 shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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