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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Liberty Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time

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