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Virtue has needs of limits.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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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Difficult People Since Thinking
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 one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides

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