I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn 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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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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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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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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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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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