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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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