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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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