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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
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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Nature Proportion Rewards
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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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Body Diversity Movement
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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