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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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