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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Men People Teamwork
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mathematics Three Triangles
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Honesty Integrity War
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Brain Guarantees Humans
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Body Giving Law

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

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