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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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

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