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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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