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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success 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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow

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