Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne 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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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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