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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
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 are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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