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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Baron de Montesquieu

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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

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