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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity

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