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Baron de Montesquieu

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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

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