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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

God Three Triangles
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

God Religion Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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