There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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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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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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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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