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Charles de Montesquieu

"The less men think, the more they talk."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
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"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
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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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"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
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