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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Baron de Montesquieu

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want

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