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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

Baron de Montesquieu

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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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Hate Running Thinking
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
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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Enough Kind Moral
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit

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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