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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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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Age Men Passion
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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