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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
[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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Believe Kings Religion
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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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Blind Intelligent World
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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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Crime People Progress
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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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Law Name Tyrant

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