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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

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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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

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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