Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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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.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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