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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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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Enough Kind Moral
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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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Envy Men Praise
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

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