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

Baron de Montesquieu

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men

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