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Baron de Montesquieu

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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