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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles

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