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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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 wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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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Law Passion Powerful
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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