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

Baron de Montesquieu

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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

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