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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Baron de Montesquieu

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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