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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success

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