Solemnity is the shield of idiots
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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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.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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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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