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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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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Country Criminals Tests

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