Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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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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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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