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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Baron de Montesquieu

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
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
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
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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth

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