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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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