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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Baron de Montesquieu

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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 we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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