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Solemnity is the shield of idiots

Baron de Montesquieu

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
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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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Arguing People Religion
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality

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