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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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 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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Believe Coffee Witty
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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