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Baron de Montesquieu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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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Country Humanity Patriotism
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

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