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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides

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