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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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