Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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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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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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