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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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