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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War

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