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The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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