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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
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

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