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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth

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