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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Baron de Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

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