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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Baron de Montesquieu

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

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