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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

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