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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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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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The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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