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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

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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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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