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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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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Men Politics Republican

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