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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation

There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

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