To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPower ought to serve as a check to power.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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