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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Baron de Montesquieu

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign

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