When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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