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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
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
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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