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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
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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