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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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

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