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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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