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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Believe Coffee Witty
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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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Body Honor Thinking
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth

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