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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Baron de Montesquieu

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science

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