Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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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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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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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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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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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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