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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mathematics Three Triangles
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Honesty Integrity War
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking

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