There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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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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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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