The less men think, the more they talk.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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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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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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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.
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A rational army would run away.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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