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

Baron de Montesquieu

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty 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
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men

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