If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe 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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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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