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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness

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