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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
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Coffee People Wise
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use

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