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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins

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