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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles

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