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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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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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