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

Baron de Montesquieu

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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