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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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