One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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