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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

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