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

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good

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