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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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.
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Firsts Men Ruin
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides

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