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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 English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
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 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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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

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