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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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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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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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