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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

Baron de Montesquieu

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

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