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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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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