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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

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