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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window

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