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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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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Citizens Men Naked
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
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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Government Law Three
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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