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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

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